Unable to find SMP kernel for Gutsy

[tilapia]

I've just upgraded to Gusty from Feisty. My machine is a dual core dual Xeon (four cores in total) but only one of these is showing up when I do: cat /proc/cpuinfo System Monitor is showing that the single processor currently recognised is running at 100% and the system is very noisy as a result.

uname -rvm says "2.6.22-14-386 #1 Sun Oct 14 22:36:54 GMT 2007 i686

I believe I need to install an SMP kernel to get the other processor/cores to show up and be utilised. However, when I do apt-cache search smp (or use Synaptic) no SMP kernels show up.

Does anyone know how I can fix this, please?

Thanks,
Matt

[episodic]

I've just upgraded to Gusty from Feisty. My machine is a dual core dual Xeon (four cores in total) but only one of these is showing up when I do: cat /proc/cpuinfo System Monitor is showing that the single processor currently recognised is running at 100% and the system is very noisy as a result.

uname -rvm says "2.6.22-14-386 #1 Sun Oct 14 22:36:54 GMT 2007 i686

I believe I need to install an SMP kernel to get the other processor/cores to show up and be utilised. However, when I do apt-cache search smp (or use Synaptic) no SMP kernels show up.

Does anyone know how I can fix this, please?

Thanks,
Matt

I don't have the answer, but I updated and have an athlon x2 and I do see SMP when I do the uname command you specified. Don't know if this will help, but there it went. . .

[tilapia]

How odd... Wonder why this is?

[tilapia]

I've just added all available repositories and done an apt-get update but an SMP kernel is still not found in my apt-cache search results. I guess this means it is missing from the repositories my machine set when I upgraded it?

[fragos]

The generic kernel supports SMP as well as single processor CPUs like my AMD Sempron 2800+. When I run uname -a it says SMP on my system. The 386 kernel does not as it's intended for very old systems.

[tilapia]

Thanks, George. That's a lot better. It's now showing three of the four processors in cpuinfo and the system is more responsive. Any ideas why the fourth is failing to show up?

[tilapia]

It's also defaulting back to the 386 kernel after a reboot.

[fragos]

I don't know what algorithms are used to allocate processes to the processors. I doubt that even distribution of load is acheived. Perhaps you don't have enough load or too few processes running to utilize the fourth.

[tilapia]

Thanks for the speedy response again. I edited menu.lst and changed the boot order to put the generic kernel at the top of the list so grub booted it by default and now all four processors are showing up after a reboot.

Now to get the Dell 2407FWP and Geforce 6600 GT configured....

Thanks for your help.
Matt